In this week's New Jersey Monthly Magazine Janet Montgomery is quoted at the end of the article as saying "I am a New Jersey girl". Now we all know that no self respecting Jersey Girl would ever say that. She needs to listen to a bit more of the Boss.
shareI was born in Jersey, and live in Jersey. Not the embarrassing parts of North Jersey that TV producers exploit to hell with shows like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives, I'm from South Jersey. And if some idiot from England is saying that she's a Jersey girl, she can go poop herself. Not only that, but I'm sick of TV producers always going for this Italian stereotype with New Jersey. Yes, there are italians in New Jersey, I myself am about 1/8th Italian, but at least be original and stop trying to just go with the trend of exploiting the supposed heavy Italian culture of New Jersey, which isn't really that heavy at all.
share"I was born in Jersey, and live in Jersey. Not the embarrassing parts of North Jersey that TV producers exploit to hell with shows like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives, I'm from South Jersey. And if some idiot from England is saying that she's a Jersey girl, she can go poop herself. Not only that, but I'm sick of TV producers always going for this Italian stereotype with New Jersey."
I AM from the Northern part of New Jersey, and I am NOT embarassed, though I do not have that stereotypical Jawsey accent that's so ubiquitous on television nowadays.
I want to like this show, as I enjoy legal dramas, but if they don't tone it down they can fuhgetabbotit!
Yeah no disrespect to North Jersey at all. It's just for this whole 'guido' thing, a lot of people don't realize that much of it comes from people close to New York. It's just that these horrible reality shows have distorted public perception of the state and the culture because they only get to see select groups of people who are chosen to be on TV because they are just what the producers wanted. If people actually got to know more of this state, they'd see that they've been sold on something that does not reflect the majority of people here at all.
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